On 2022-07-13 2:29 p.m., Bill Rau wrote:
I tried to download OpenOffice on my iMac and it would not let me finish doing
so. Said “cannot verify developer” and may contain malware.
I have it on my old Windows system and like it and want it here also. Can you
help?
Bill
The solution is in the Release Notes/Known Issues if you had read them.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.12+Release+Notes#AOO4.1.12ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues
Known Issues
For macOS users
* Apache OpenOffice will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in macOS. This
is a feature to
help guard against malware on Mac systems.The Apache OpenOffice disk images
are signed by
Apache as required by Apple, but Gatekeeper may still be triggered. If that
happens, please
follow the below steps.
o For macOS up to 10.11 “El Capitan”: There is a procedure laid out at
the following
link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App Store to run.
See theMac
support article <https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290>.
o
For macOS 10.12 “Sierra” and up: In Finder, Control-click or
right-click the icon of
the app. Select Open from the top of the contextual menu that appears.
Click Open in
the dialog box. If prompted, enter an administrator name and password.
This is needed
just the first time you launch Apache OpenOffice.
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